yes im still having the same darn problem, im going to check my firewall settings to make sure i dont have any ports blocked..other then that, i have everything set up exactly how its supposed to. i made sure several times.

Progress report:

still having the same issues. everything is exactly as it should be. i lurked around a couple of outlook forums but couldn't find any help.

ok..after taking a deep breath and counting to ten. i went back and started from scratch.

now i dont have any errors from outlook but i still do not recieve emails to outlook. i also set up outlook express and it works fine sending and recieving. this is my mission in life, to make outlook work with gmail. after its all done i'll be the subject matter expert with setting up pop3 with outlook.

MP, is your Outlook up to date?

I don't know whether Outlook is included in Windows updates.

If not, updating it could be a possible solution.

What about trying this:

Open Outlook,

Click Help,

Click Detect and Repair,

On the window that appears Click Start,

From here on just click whatever seems appropriate, pop your Office cd in if asked, and Outlook should be repaired to an original state.

Sorry for sounding a bit vague about this but I only went through the procedure up to a certain point.

unfortunately i dont have that cd. i made sure it was all up to date when i first started. i'm starting to wonder if i'm supposed to have a special folder?

ok, im very confussed but happy at the same time...my outlook and gmail works fine. i have to give thanks to everyone for their patience and all the help